waynerosso.com — Here’s a really good one for you. Last week EMI sales reps started making calls to many if not all of their small accounts, mostly independent mom & pop stores, to tell them that they would no longer sell them product!!!
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Closed AccountJul 12, 2009
Unlimited supplyThere is no reason whyI tell you it was all a frameThey only did it cos the fame !I do not need the pressureI can't stand the useless fools !Unlimited supply
kingflasherJul 13, 2009
'Allo EMI Get Fuuuuuuucked!!(one of me favorite Sex Pistols tunes - next to "Bodies")
mostlyfsckedJul 13, 2009
I refuse to buy or pirate their music. I won't promote them at all.I wonder if I'm going to miss out on anything good ....
edjenkins234Jul 14, 2009
Which makes you a self entitled douche
niallabrownJul 26, 2009
With the way things are changing with people seeking out local culture resulting from the Internet (people actually know about the bands around their area for the first time.) Wouldnt it be better to seek out and start distributing smaller acts to smaller stores in their own demographic. it seems like this is moving in the oppsite direction of what I have seen in my city. Maybe that is just here but I hope it is a greater trend than that.
pilgrim3970Jul 28, 2009
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Hi Jimmy Wing, Palatine Records!
hypnoteJul 28, 2009
Actually it obviously depends on the language of the contract. The game is for Record Companies to "warrant" as few specifics about what it will do as possible, so while selling to Independent Retailers is clearly their responsibility (and may even be sufficiently IMPLIED) under the Artist Agreement, that is why people need a lawyer to negotiate these deals— so they can get the company on paper with exactly what it is promising to do. The entire businesses (and laws) are significantly different in the US and UK to start with as well. Either way, even if they explicitly warranted in the Agreement that they will make every good faith endeavour to sell the product to independent stores (which is something, for example, that Nirvana insisted on), it would be very expensive to litigate your way out of the contract. You would probably need a decent label that wants you who is willing to put up that kind of scratch. And there is no ASAP about it either.
bjornskiJul 31, 2009
Lewis Black had originally said it regarding MTV, but it fits the music industry as a whole just as well."They are to music, what KFC is to chickens."
bjornskiAug 1, 2009
Why digg that down? If I were a music distribution company, who had to pay for the amount of bandwidth I used, would I rather distribute 1,000,000 3mb songs or 1,000,000 10mb songs?You do the math.